# Date: 1905

The document printed below represents a hasty sketch of the plan for Lenin's article "The First Lessons," written in early February 1905 (Works, vol. VII, pp. 104-101).*

## ON THE ARTICLE "THE FIRST LESSONS"
January, after the 22nd, 1905. Geneva.

**A) Historical* sketch.**
— Zubatovism. Its causes. Its results.
— Economic* beginning. The role of the legal society and the broad* spread of the movement.
General strike and important economic* demands*.
— Discipline and organization* of the proletariat.
— Political* demands* (initially moderate. Faith in the Tsar and
— plan of a peaceful demonstration.
— Lessons taught by the police.
— The beating and the beginning of the uprising.
Expansion* of the movement to other* cities. Moscow.
South, Caucasus*, Poland.
— Probable course
— barricades, etc.

**B) Tasks:**
Temporary*
— Arming of workers
Government*
— [Disorganization]* drawing [over] to one's side* troops
— Drawing the peasantry [over]
— Destruction of the police and institutions of autocracy for the guarantee of freedom* Constituent* Assembly
Desirability of utilizing workers'* victory for broad* agitation
[a) Arming* of workers for strengthening[
b) Peasantry.

*In the manuscript, instead of "side," "troops" was written by mistake. Red.*